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Re^2: Question about crontab

by pc88mxer (Vicar)
on Jan 23, 2008 at 23:30 UTC ( [id://663909]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Question about crontab
in thread Question about crontab

That might be a "midnight" ambiguity.

Actually, I avoid running cron jobs directly on the hour (or small fractions thereof). Too many other people schedule their jobs that way, and it leads to load average spikes at those times. Maybe it's time to update cron with load balancing heuristics.

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